It promised to be a long and uninteresting season for the Dukes. Another 100-loss campaign seemed inevitable. Football season couldn't come soon enough. Then, the local brewer added a little zest to... More > the season. FREE BEER for all Dukes fans if the team could avoid 100 losses said Roland Fredericks. A beer-induced buzz swept through the town that summer as Dukes fans loudly cheered for beer. Hope for a few more wins flowed out into the streets. The stage was set for the most memorable season finale for a bad baseball team ever!< Less

It promised to be a long and uninteresting season for the Dukes. Another 100-loss campaign seemed inevitable. Football season couldn't come soon enough.
Then, the local brewer added a little zest... More > to the season. FREE BEER for all Dukes fans if the team could avoid 100 losses said Roland Fredericks. A beer-induced buzz swept through the town that summer as Dukes fans loudly cheered for beer.
Hope for a few more wins flowed out into the streets. The stage was set for the most memorable season finale for a bad baseball team ever!< Less

During the 2010 minor league baseball season, Mike Tauser tweeted 177 haiku (3009 syllables) about Houston's minor league system. The centerpiece of this book is that collection of haiku. In... More > addition, the book includes a foreword by Zachary Levine of the Houston Chronicle and a bonus 5/7 poem about two of the greatest Astros of the Past #5 & #7.< Less

During the 2010 minor league baseball season, Mike Tauser tweeted 177 haiku (3009 syllables) about Houston's minor league system. The centerpiece of this book is that collection of haiku. In... More > addition, the book includes a foreword by Zachary Levine of the Houston Chronicle and a bonus 5/7 poem about two of the greatest Astros of the Past #5 & #7.< Less

About Mike Tauser

Mike Tauser has been following the Astros of the Future through his Farmstros blog since September 2007.